Category Archives: World
Report: Trump ends covert plan to arm Syrian rebels
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has decided to halt the CIA’s years-long covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the regime of the nation’s president Bashar al-...
Jul 19, 2017
Trump rages at Sessions in New York Times interview
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump told The New York Times in an interview Wednesday that he never would have appointed Jeff Sessions as attorney general had he known Sessions would recuse himself fr...
Jul 19, 2017
Sen. John McCain diagnosed with brain tumour after blood clot removed
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain of Arizona diagnosed with brain tumour after blood clot removed. More to come. The Associated Press
Jul 19, 2017
Doctors: Sen. John McCain has brain tumour
WASHINGTON - Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee with a well-known maverick streak that often vexes his GOP colleagues, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour, his offic...
Jul 19, 2017
Western Michigan woman convicted of murder in parrot case
WHITE CLOUD, Mich. - A jury has convicted a western Michigan woman of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband in a crime apparently witnessed by the man’s pet parrot. The Newayg...
Jul 19, 2017
Amazon's new social network is looking a lot like Pinterest
NEW YORK - Take Amazon Prime, mix it with Pinterest and add a dash of Instagram. The result is Amazon Spark , a new shopping-focused “social network” aimed at getting hardcore Amazon users...
Jul 19, 2017
US appeals court tosses convictions of British ex-bankers
NEW YORK - A U.S. appeals court cited the Fifth Amendment right to be free from self-incrimination as it reversed the convictions Wednesday of two British ex-bankers charged with conspiring to manipul...
Jul 19, 2017
Brazil government assures graft probe will continue
WASHINGTON - Brazil’s justice minister and the top prosecutor both insisted Wednesday that the corruption probe they’ve led against their country’s top politicians will continue in f...
Jul 19, 2017
Trump pulls out props for latest 'theme week'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is pulling out all the stops - and props - to try to shift the subject to more positive messages. As part of a weeklong focus on American-made goods, Trump has pose...
Jul 19, 2017
Trump campaign inner circle called before Senate committees
WASHINGTON - Members of the Trump campaign’s inner circle, including his eldest son and son-in-law, are being called before Senate committees next week to talk about the 2016 election. The week ...
Jul 19, 2017
